Strange Bargain (1950)

Directors

Will Price

Cast

Harry Morgan, Henry O'Neill, Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott

The story

Harried by his wife, deferential but financially stressed assistant bookkeeper Sam Wilson goes to his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, to ask for a raise. Instead, he learns he is about to lose his job because the firm is badly failing. Jarvis then offers a strange bargain, revealing he intends to commit suicide to provide for his cosseted wife Edna and son Sydney, but needs somebody to make it look like murder in order for his life insurance policies to pay off.

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